Mercedes Lackey Quotes

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

Mercedes Lackey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1950

Topics

LifeFamilyRestHellMy LifeEarth

My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens.

Jim Rash

BalanceSpaceWritingWorldComedy

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

Joel Edgerton

SportsPeopleCityMeProudLoved

I'm not a sci-fi kind of guy, to be honest.

Steve Zahn

KindHonestGuyTo Be HonestSci-Fi

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Russell M. Nelson

HeartStruggleChallengesFeelRight

Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.

Deeyah Khan

ReligionChooseOppressionWorship

Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.

Cory Booker

HealthFoodGovernmentSocietyThink

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

Chrystia Freeland

InnovationCompetitionCozyPayMany

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

Brad Paisley

CreativeSpaceDoctorFeelImportant

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

Brad Thor

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My future is righteousness.

Bob Marley

FutureRighteousness

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

Antonio Munoz Molina

ShortMysteryYouPowerfulSituation

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

William Labov

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